Why do so few gentlemen remove their hats indoors anymore?

[Lurker66]

Lmao, nice one.

 

[aeropb]

My hair is way too jacked up to not wear a hat

 

[jcizzle]

Why is it a point to hold the door open for women and not hold it for everyone? Common courtesy not women courtesy

This. I hold doors for women, elders, kids and other men. Why just be nice in public or just to women and old folks?

We never were allowed at the table with a hat or without a shirt growing up so those are two rules I kept at my house. However the hat indoors is a generational thing. Like wearing a coat and tie if you went "out" like dinner where someone serves you.

Same folks who want me to take my hat off indoors will wear work clothes to dinner to be served. I guess they get to pick and choose which traditional courtessies to hold onto.

 

[dowmace]

Oh good lord not the drugstore cowboy argument again...




I wear my hat in commercial establishments through dinner, fullbrim cowboy hat or my ball cap they will not leave my head at a commercial restaurant, unless I see or hear another family saying grace I will remove my hat until they are through out of respect. I always remove my hat when introducing myself or entering a new persons home. If your a good friend of mine I'll leave my hat on.

 

[50Shooter]

The first thing I learned about wearing hats in the US Army is that you continue to wear them indoors if "under arms" meaning you are carrying a loaded weapon.

I'm always under arms so I'm still following protocol.

 

[flatwins]

This much I do know: society sure has a lot of old school and\or strange customs regarding hats.

 

[RWS]

Oh good lord not the drugstore cowboy argument again...




I wear my hat in commercial establishments through dinner, fullbrim cowboy hat or my ball cap they will not leave my head at a commercial restaurant, unless I see or hear another family saying grace I will remove my hat until they are through out of respect. I always remove my hat when introducing myself or entering a new persons home. If your a good friend of mine I'll leave my hat on.

this^
its a sign of respect. sometimes in respect to the place, sometimes the people, & sometimes the situation. i'll take it off when entering someone's home (unless it's a close friend), at the dinner table in ANYONE's home, during prayer (anywhere), during the national anthem, as a funeral procession passes on the road, etc., & definitely would never set foot in a church without removing it, but dont expect me to take it off at burger king or pretty much any public place unless the above mentiond apply.

 

[mightymouse]

Why so few gentlemen anymore?

 

[tran]

Why so few gentlemen anymore?

I don't think it the Gentleman part as much as it is the respect part... That's how I look at it but then again I'm old school.

 

[tran]

this^
its a sign of respect. sometimes in respect to the place, sometimes the people, & sometimes the situation. i'll take it off when entering someone's home (unless it's a close friend), at the dinner table in ANYONE's home, during prayer (anywhere), during the national anthem, as a funeral procession passes on the road, etc., & definitely would never set foot in a church without removing it, but dont expect me to take it off at burger king or pretty much any public place unless the above mentiond apply.

I agree with this...